skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I think it's pretty blatant that this is an attempt to artificially deflate the price. Shorts can keep re-leveraging themselves and driving the price down because you've tied the hands of the demand. Absurd.
Build a Robinhood style waitlist with referrals
Just in case you want to start a competing brokerage which doesn't block you from trading securities with what's happening with $GME right now.
Qutebrowser is so awesome! Sadly, I had to switch back to Firefox and Vimium because I never figured out how to enable Kerberos. With Firefox, this easy, go to about:config and edit the negotiate auth whitelist. I tried to set all kinds of flags but gave up after a couple of days.
Legacy car makers have an extensive network of dealerships they can leverage to build their charging infrastructure.

The fact that an SV startup managed to build itself what might be considered a moat by some regulators in a few years while being laughed at by the legacy carmakers is very ironic.
Personally I think it's a security problem that Pillow Man's LARPer mob constituted a credible threat to our National Security. This doesn't seem like cause to restrict speech. (Of course, Twitter is technically a private platform, but it's also the de facto public square as I discussed elsewhere in this thread, and the property we ought to care about is that free speech is protected in the public square).
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Still 4.8 on the App Store though
I just bought 10x GME to show my support
holding until Monday.
> I'd be interested in the "how" if you'd consider creating a blog on using Hotwire with Phoenix.

Technically it doesn't involve adding or changing even 1 line of code on the back-end to make Turbo Drive and Frames work with any tech stack.

It works out of the box by following Turbo's docs and using the HTML tags they mention along with bringing in the Turbo JS library.

But for Frames you can optionally do what Rails does and add some server side code that says "hey, if this request is coming from a Turbo Frame only send the partial template as a response instead of the whole layout". That logic for Rails is here: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails/blob/main/app/contro.... It's a nice to have optimization that will reduce your frame's HTML payload size but it still works without doing this.

It can be ported to Phoenix or any back-end language by using a plug / middleware to not render the layout if a specific header exists in the request. The ETag stuff could be ported over too if your web framework's web server sets an ETag header.

Streams are a bit more tricky to get working in other tech stacks since it may involve Websockets. Hopefully we start to see more examples in the future. But I believe it should be possible to pull off in a production ready way with any back-end language that has a good library or built in support for Websockets at the framework level. That means Flask, Django, Laravel and Phoenix are all good to go in this regard (probably others too but I'm not familiar enough with their ecosystems to say for sure).
I do that. I sometimes prefer PRs to discuss my improvements. By the time I answer questions such as "how intrusive would this change be", "what exactly needs to be changed", "how would I test my change", I'm already halfway through the PR.

I agree that sending a PR should not be considered a guarantee of merging. Rather an issue that is discussed with a mixture of prose and code.
Why are we only talking about the small percentage of entrepreneurs that become famous? Most are not and never will be, nor is that a requirement for entrepreneur success. That bar is entirely irrelevant to any conversation about how to encourage entrepreneurship.
Just as I was wondering how many retail investors might be involved:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947674

From the number of Playstore votes it seems quite a few?

Will be interesting to see if it stays that way. Or if they can somehow cheat their way out of it and get all recent ratings deleted or something.

Any guesses?
Project Veritas is on the case:

Robinhood whistleblowers can hit us up at veritastips@protonmail.com or on Signal 914-653-3110
Well earned.
I'm not sure I trust this tweet but if it is true this is literal fraud. That would mean the end of Robinhood as a company.
They kept it ambiguous, did they not?

Why would they bother to make such statements early in the AM if they had actually closed out their shorts?

They said before they do not comment on their positions. Why would they do so now if it wasn't a serious situation?
Bringing up moderation is a good point. But, it isn't so simple.

Moderation isn't something that's changed. Forums and modern social media both moderate. They do it to varying degrees.

Social media moderation comes in multiple forms. First they will choose which posts people see in their feed. This is a form of moderation. It's easy to have topics and even people just not show up. What shows up is based around engagement and money.

There is also moderation about content. People can be labeled or removed from visibility.

Then there is banning where banning isn't on the topic but the whole system. And the systems are tied to other things (e.g., banning on FB impacts your Oculus ownership).

Old school forums were based on topics and were different systems. They were moderated, if they were, for that system. The moderation was typically around content you posted. They didn't control the flow or order you saw it in. It was the content.

When banning came up, it was just for that form. So, if someone is banned from a jeep owners forum they are just fine interacting in a forum on web design.

I say this to note that the way the technology is developed has an impact on the way people act.

For example, these days there are people who don't want to speak out on some topics because they are fearful they will be banned or negatively impacted globally.

I'm not suggesting how the technology should be built. I'm trying to point out how the system design impacts the way people think and behave. Older systems were designed differently and had a different impact. It's worth noting these things.
Cheers. And yes, I'm totally aware of how awful and toxic those parts of the internet are, but usually those toxic and awful people hide it more when you talk to them in real life.
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There are a lot of disingenuous comments designed to obfuscate the situation and this is unquestionably one of them.

Why would you lead with this "most short positions are actually held by retail investors" quote, exactly? What does this have to do with RobinHood restricting the ability to Buy - yes, just purchase normally with no leverage - the GME stock?

You are a shill and I have reported you.
On top of the basic income idea I also would be perfectly happy to have the government fund little businesses in a similar manner - not a corporate basic income, but the next great business might be in the head of someone working for minimum wage in shop. Give them a few quid, keep an eye on them, see where it goes.
You're right, what I meant is that the share price doesn't affect the finances of the company (eg. a company that sells widgets makes the same amount of money whether their stock is worth $1 or $100000). As you point out, the share price should in theory reflect the value of the company (bankrupt company -> share price of $0), but a fluctuating stock price doesn't really change the value of the company itself (excluding shares that it owns, obviously).
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I'm teaching someone python and they only have an iPad. A quick search turned up Google Collab and Pythonista. What has your experience been using either one on iPad? Are there other options?
> Even now it feels remarkable that someone with Gates' intellect and access to rich district school computers (in the '70s) benefited so massively from being born into a connected family.

While this seems to be the accepted correlation, by all accounts Bill Gates also brought an extraordinary curiosity and drive to the party.

From what I gather, (adjusted for age) he works just as hard today. Listening to him speak on a topic of current interest to him, gives me a IQ bump (self-perceived and short-lived unfortunately, but that's on me)

I'm no statistician, but I'd be willing wager that the two ratios are about the same:

1. kids with privilege in the 70's: Bill Gates

2. people with the ability to spend billions to further a cause: Bill Gates

Edit: formatting
Sorry, but no. Concern for the little people isn't even slightly indicated by Robinhood's actions.
If you lend money to someone, especially someone on the brink of insolvency, then you are buying whatever they are. Of course, Citadel can be on both or any number sides but they still take on exposure in that direction.
Paul Graham wrote about what YC looks for in startup founders in 2010 [0]. The first thing he notes is that intelligence wasn't anywhere near as important as they expected it would be. And I think pg had a much better definition of intelligence than "academic achievements and standardized test scores." So I don't think this paper is really making a strong-man case for parent's income being the most important factor in entrepreneurship, they've ignored all 5 aspects that experts like pg think are the actual most important factors and focused on one that he thinks isn't as important as people think it is.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/founders.html
I wonder what percentage of Robinhood users hold GME - if it's more than 25% I'd say they're finished. If we assume 25% of users hold GME and 80% of GME holders will not return after this fiasco that's extremely significant IMO.

Not to say that they'll cease to exist, but I doubt they'll remain the "#1 trading platform."
Sort by newest ratings to see why.
GitLab comes to my mind, where an issue can either be open or closed in the community edition. You literally have to pay for "work in progress".
Fully paid purchases, or just options?
OK, for me code = diff, it can add lines and it can remove lines.

My point is that one shouldn't be close minded on others.
Disalowwing PRs is just like closing your ears because you don't want to hear the other person arguments - IRL you avoid such peoples, in virtual one you should avoid them too.
Hi geoah,

Looking back, I think following this contribution model of open source but no contribution would definitely help me. In the beginning, I hadn't a lot of experience managing a large open source project. I would accept all kinds of feature PR's or tried to implement all the features people suggested and wanted from me. Obviously that was one of the main drivers of vim-go's popularity.
However, this popularity also brought me down and I had a burnout.

The problem with this one-person/popular projects are, it's not scalable. People recommend finding a maintainer, but that's not always possible and pretty hard. The main problem is, it's a niche product. Like you need to find someone who loves Vim, loves Go and also wants to be a part of a project. (I was lucky to find someone like that though, thank you Billie!).

I still enjoy writing software on the side, but I think I've lost the energy and appetite to work +4 hours (on top of my full time job) every single day. Having two kids, getting older probably contributed to it :) I'm happy though how things have evolved right now. I found my inner peace.
Can someone who knows more about such things than I explain to me why their weird response to the situation (halting buying, but still permitting selling) was deemed by them to be the best of their options (the other two obvious ones being to temporarily stop dealing in those securities entirely (halting buying and selling), or to continue letting people trade them as they had the previous day)?

It's confusing to me. I'd think if they were being risk-averse or something they'd have stopped dealing in them entirely until the craziness passed. The "you can only sell, not buy" part seems... odd to me.
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I'm surprised the app stores (well, at least the play store) don't have hysteresis built in to prevent mobbing the ratings, just in general.
> The best-performing stocks this week are brands familiar to anyone who used to hang out in malls as a kid in the mid-2000s.

Ah nostalgia for Spencers, KB Toys, Toys R Us, Hot Topic...
It might just work if you're on Qt 5.12.1 or newer: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-51082
WSB people are GME shareholders as well, just like TSLA shareholders.
Unless you are going to win at rich people's expense
If they keep selling people's stocks without their consent, then yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll stay until RH can buy better reviews.

[edit]

though there are some reports that the stocks were bought on margin, which makes it more(?) okay, I guess?
I'm getting first-hand accounts from coworkers about this right now. Seems legit. Appreciate the looking out though, you're absolutely right - we shouldn't jump on every little development while its still rumor.
Amazing. Thanks for the link dude!
The defense is "while there is mocking of disabilities and gay sexuality, there is not racism and xenophobia". Regardless, its in good fun. There is no intention of actually disparaging those groups. There are plenty of posts about donations to Autism research and other charities.

Stop moving goal posts its a bad look.
Oh I hope they win!
half of all americans invested in the market own some GME allegedly
I believe App Store updates a day later, so we're likely not seeing the results of any mass rating bombs.
Liquidating positions in a margin account is standard. They posted they changed the requirements for certain stocks. if you don’t meet the capital requirements, they’ll liquidate positions to reduce their risk. If people don’t realize they can do this, they have no business with a margin account.
Didn't they want to expand to Europe sometime soon? I guess that is up in the air now after the regulators see this.
I think a majority of people riding this don’t care where the money goes - they just want to stick it to the man.
I agree that it's a culture problem but I don't think it's a new one. There are several problems with today's as I see it:

1) Each small town used to have a crazy person who didn't quite live up to societal expectations. They might even "publish" but they had a limited audience (their town) who wasn't receptive to the message. With the huge "communications platforms" we've adopted on the Internet, those crazies can now find each other quite easily and band together into a group that has a much louder voice. Please note here that my use of the word "crazies" is not a medical diagnosis but rather a description of someone whose thoughts are significantly outside the mainstream.

2) In those small towns, there was societal pressure to NOT act on every non-conforming thought that you had. If you got shunned from your town, you might not survive and/or would be actively hunted down. If everyone knew you, the town gossip mill would make sure that you were continuously under a microscope. Now that the non-conformists have banded together in a large forum, they're outside the confines of their own community.

If the goal is to quash hate speech and calls to violence, I think it's also important to note that there are some types of non-conformance that are good for society. Some is a gradual constant pressure that keeps our society ready for the day we live in. Others result in scientific advancement - most of us here consider "thinking-outside-the-box" to be a good thing. Doc Brown's town all considered him a little crazy but he was a "harmless crazy".

As you might have expected, I don't have an answer to the current problem either but I think this is a discussion we have to have. How do we put societal pressure to use on a large scale? Can we in fact have constructive arguments with these groups? If we're willing to endure censorship, where is the boundary and how do we keep it from expanding?

I for one would like community guidelines to determine where those edges are - perhaps we're "too far gone" as a society and we're just headed into another version of the dark ages.
In this case, I think Apple does as well. It seems extremely focused on Mac/iOS user workloads and by all means does them extremely well. That it matches or beats x86 general purpose CPUs in synthetic benchmarks is an added bonus.

I think interestingly enough, the M1 does this w/ much of the die devoted to neural engine widgets
Whereabouts? I guess this might be true in the valley but in the UK for example I'd imagine you'd have to live off nowt for years to be able to do that - i.e. salaries are pretty horrific in some industries.
> With things like Flatbuffers, I sometimes feel we've regressed to these old formats

Sorta, but they're expressed in IDLs that are independent of a particular compiler. The downside is the drift between internal structs and the IDL structs, but the upside is you can use the same "memory dump" on interpreted runtimes or entirely different platforms (even those with different endians). Plus impls like protobuf help guard against breaking backward-compatibility by numbering fields and not "allowing" you to remove fields in ways that would change the structs' ABIs.
Really? So you don’t think continuous, one sided propaganda can radicalize people?

Subjected to enough propaganda, literally anyone will succumb to the propagated viewpoint with very few exceptions.
> Any creation of affordable housing contributes to slowing down increasing prices.

As does creation of market rate housing[0], even in the short term.

[0]https://research.upjohn.org/up_policybriefs/13/
Ah that makes sense. I wasn't aware of that.
For posterity's sake, the link should probably be changed to https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/83394493f51991...
I think companies also need to deal with the tax implications of someone working in another country. Not sure what impact that would have.
Tomorrow they are going to prevent you from selling stocks that are in the money.
> So I would argue that you do see more innovation from poor families than rich families. After all, rich families have no need to innovate, they just throw money at problems until they go away.

This is not something to argue about, this is something that that we should measure.
Just remember this when you see who gets promoted, and be sure to adjust your strategy accordingly ;)

Unfortunately most software companies (like all companies) are based on management ego and rah rah rah. This is an infamous problem which is part of why software quality is so low.
Recommended listening while you read my rant: white trash anthem - blood for blood lyrics[0]

https://youtu.be/ghybm4Y6C7w

Here's my perspective.

I spent my childhood around kids from broken families, most of whom had parents in prison on long sentences for nonviolent drug charges. I saw lots of my friends lose their houses in the 00s. I entered a job market that treats just about everyone as disposable; unworthy of training, investment, benefits, time off, bathroom breaks, ppe, or a livable wage.

Wall sts focus on the short term has been like napalm on these issues and made fixing them political suicide. I don't say this lightly; wall st has enslaved America for profit.

>The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90% [1]

The proletariat is showing their heads and nipping at the ankles of everyone. Some are misguided, but beating a hedge fund at their own game, trying to convince boomers that black lives matter enough to not be executed by police, or Medicare for All or forgiving student loan debt are all extremely well studied solutions to systemic issues in America that will not be meaningfully addressed until the root problems are addressed: money in politics, racism, trickle down economics, class inequality, asset inflation, health care, employee rights, war on drugs, etc, etc, etc.

This specific incident was a fluke of luck that required ridiculously overpaid bros in cushy hedge fund jobs to count past 100% while shorting gme/nok/AMC which is playing with the lives and livelihood of the people that work in each of those companies. Needless to say, but watching billionaires repeat '08 with gamestop, amc, and Nokia ruffled a lot of feathers. Gme especially brought out some whales with money to burn in the chase of infinite gains.

Maybe this was an elaborate psyop to manipulate people into doing things they wouldn't. If so, great job, if not, well maybe the fat cats on wall st and in Congress should come around my hood and experience the hopelessness for themselves, that's an open invitation for as long as this account is active for any billionaires or US politicians not already arguing against the same issues I am to come and walk in my shoes.

Hopefully this incident spurs some change in wall st and the culture there. Congress certainly doesn't have the courage to.

[0]
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/bloodforblood/outlawanthems...
[1] https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-ameri...
Manually aggregating the onslaught of related links. Very useful

You didn't think that you'd be able to avoid this in the future, now did you? You've established a precedent (at least for huge, fast moving (disruptive) events) :)
Guarantee it’s this. They changed the capital requirements for certain stocks and people were over leveraged.
> No large organization has ever committed securities fraud in order to make or save billions.

Who would save billions? For how long?

Let's assume the statement is fraudulent. Before the statement was made, Melvin's LPs were set to get hosed. Melvin's general partners, the ones making the statements, have a lot of egg on their faces. But they didn't do anything wrong. They keep their money and houses and yachts. And in all likelihood, after a few months, craft a lessons-learned pitch and raise more money.

After the statement, they have engaged in fraud. Not only is criminal prosecution a risk. All those deep-pocketed LPs can now sue the general partners, personally, for breach of fiduciary duty.

Add to that the Citadel bailout, which removed the risk of the fund going under, and there is no reasonable explanation for lying about closing out the short. If you wanted to show resilience, you'd say something like "we've fully hedged our shorts with long-dated puts, reducing our expected profit but capping our losses."
In the simplest, likely potentially inaccurate explanation... Robinhood doesn't actually make the trades. They pay someone else to make the trades, add a small amount to the price, and that's how they get to 0$ trading price to the end user. The upstream party is refusing to do things, so Robinhood has no choice but to follow the rules that party set.

That's like, way over simplified but gets to the gist

[Edit cause spelling are hard]
Not worse, that is the point. It is merely a bad format, which is better than what PSD is.

As for why JPEG is bad: Did you know there is no one defined way to store the width and height of a JPEG image?
This has happened in India previously with TikTok. Google removed the reviews to improve rating but in this case I think Google won't take any action.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-remov...
in an etf or fund, maybe
My guess is that Google will get involved. It's not the first time a mob is trying to destroy the rating of an app. But their rating before all of this drama is not going to last; that's for sure.
Can’t find the link but I think I read earlier today it was much higher than 25%.
Yes. Both things happened. I was specifically talking about halting trade multiple times during the day.
> Nathan Myhrvold

Another puff piece for the patent troll king!